Well that's the Christmas lights taken down

My lights never went up last year, the cards that went in the window have mainly curled-up and fallen-over.

OTOH I have just sharpened the blades for my brush cutter.

My lounge ones have been up for 2 years. Easier than taking them down.

Owain

Some of our outside lights remain in situ all year, generally those that need a ladder to remove, the rest come down with the tree usually the day after New Year this year we almost managed twelfth night.

Big Clive did an interesting YouTube video regards commercial Christmas lights. I noticed on a retail set we bought this year for outside because the wires and sleeving on the LEDs was clear just how much corrosion there was around the soldering after only a few weeks outside. Anyway they were not expensive and if they last as long as the set they replaced I will be happy.

Richard

You'll have brought a curse on yourself. But dunno how long it lasts. Until time for them to go up again?

Why put them up if it is so much trouble? Neighbour pressure? I don't put any outside as I can't see them when I am indoors/

We have three sets of outside lights - one wrapped around the 7' high Japanese Willow, another along the Cotoneaster running along the front fence and the last along the gutter. I use a ladder to put the gutter ones up (clipped on with clips bent up from wire coat-hangers), but can get them down, by pushing the clips up with a long stick, from ground level. It took about 20 minutes to get them all down a packed away on

I glued a towel rail back together and the big win is that I did not glue myself to it. I did spend some time getting hard superglue off my fingers though, memories of the old aero modelling I did when I could see. Nearly all glues seem to be much more efficient at adhering to skin than their intended material I often find. Now how to fix a rotted fence post till the weather is conducive to get a man in to replace it... Whose bright idea was it to concrete it in, oh yes, mine.... Brian

Something like this might be easier, fence post repair: